February 12, 2020
UC Berkeley researchers and collaborators, including Jennifer Doudna and Jamie Cate, have discovered hundreds of unusually large, bacteria-killing viruses with capabilities normally associated with living organisms.
January 29, 2020
Professor of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, John Ngai, has been picked by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to head its BRAIN initiative, a multibillion-dollar federal research push to develop new tools for understanding how the brain works and lead to new treatments for brain disorders.
January 28, 2020
Led by UC Berkeley’s Randy Schekman, 21 Nobel laureates from the United States have sent an open letter to President Donald Trump urging him to follow through on a rumored plan to make all federally funded research studies free for the public.
January 09, 2020
In a study published this week in the journal Nature, professor Ting Xu and collaborators describe the first lab-made versions of gatekeeper proteins that filter good from bad just as well as the real thing.
December 31, 2019
The federal government has given the University of California a New Year’s Eve gift—its 20th U.S. patent on CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technologies.
December 30, 2019
Highlights of QB3-Berkeley research, awards, and events news from 2019.
December 30, 2018
Highlights of QB3-Berkeley research, awards, and events news from 2018.
December 30, 2017
Highlights of QB3-Berkeley research, awards, and events news from 2017.